Audiobook Hellspark by Janet Kagan in the ListenBook app
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Book description
Hellspark: A Cosmic Comedy of Errors
Janet Kagan's "Hellspark" deserves a medal for sheer audacity-if not for actually delivering on its promises. Here's a Hugo Award winner that treats interstellar murder mystery like a particularly confused travelogue, and somehow makes it work despite itself.
Our protagonist Tocohl stumbles into this galactic mess quite literally, which is apparently the author's idea of character development. She wanted a vacation, got attacked, rescued someone, faced a judge, and now she's off to solve murders on Lassti. It's the universe's most convoluted job application process. One wonders if Kagan's research methods involved dropping her main character into increasingly absurd situations until something stuck.
The real tragedy here isn't the physicist's death-it's the Sprookjes, those birdlike natives who exist in the story primarily to be inconveniently intelligent. Their presence threatens to derail corporate development plans, which apparently makes them less important than quarterly profit margins. How refreshingly dystopian of Kagan to suggest that native rights are just another plot device.
What saves this audiobook from complete disaster is Kagan's apparent decision to treat her own premise with healthy skepticism. The political intrigue unfolds with all the subtlety of a spacesuit malfunction, but there's something almost charming about a murder mystery where nobody seems particularly motivated to solve it. Everyone's just winging it, which makes Tocohl's bumbling detective work feel less like incompetence and more like method acting.
The audiobook format actually works in Kagan's favor here-the confusion becomes infectious rather than exhausting. You can almost hear the narrator's exasperation through the increasingly ridiculous plot twists.
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